SOUTH AFRICA: Yes, Again

"Oh no,"cried an editorial in the Rand Daily Mail last week, "not again!" The
South African newspaper had good reason for its dismay. In the same
Port Elizabeth police building where Political Activist Stephen Biko
was held for four days last September before his highly suspicious
death from a supposedly self-inflicted bump on the head (TIME, Sept. 26
et seq.), another black prisoner died under curious circumstances.
According to police, the prisoner leaped without warning to his death
through an open fifth-floor window during a security police
interrogation. When announcing the incident, Minister of Justice James
T....